St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-08
Methods Which Will Hasten
the Opening Of the Sioux
Reservation.
The Red Men Will Agree to 1t
If They Are Assured Of
Just Treatment.
Their Confidence Has Been
Badly Shaken By Former
Republican Agents.
A Democratic Policy Has Pro-
duced a Marked Change
The Indians Future.
Special Letter to the Globe.

Special Letter to the Globe.
BRULE A AGENCY, OAK, Oct. 5.-The
immense area of lands reserved for the
sole use of the Indians, and known as
the Sioux reservation, located west of
the Missouri river, is vast tract
wanted badly and needed by the white
settlers, thousands of whom are waiting
and anxiously watching the movement
of the government with regard to open
ing of the same for their settlement.
The Indian committee and the indian
societies had, at one time, well founded
excuses made by the Indians themselves
for not opening this tract for settle
ment; but those excuses are not made
now. The unfair treatment given the
several tribes by the agents appointed
by the last two Republican presidents
made the Indians lose the last trace of
confidence they had in the government,
and caused them to go on the war
path and to resist every attempt to
induce them to agree to any terms for
the giving up of their rights to the white
people. The Indians say that these
agents greatly wronged them in many
ways: that they were robbed and de-
ceived at every turn, until even the
most enlightened turned their backs
upon propositions and suggestions and
refused, with scowlS and threats, to
listen to the words of the white man,
whom they were taught during those
years to believe were their enemy. They
made their complaints to those whom
they understood to be the proper au-
thOritieS, for redress and for a cOrrec-
N thnU thnV
were promised protection, the sequel,
however, showing no discOntinuance of
the former unfair practices against
them. Their embittered feelings re-
Sented all acts to restore confidence,
until they fully understood that there
was change in the administration of
the white mans government.
THIS CHANGE WAS DEMONSTRATED
by the removal of the Objectionable
agents of the Republican party, who
had sadly controlled their interests for
years, and the appearance of strange
men, who took charge of their affairs
and Immediately began to treat them
kindly, and under new favorable de-
partnre from the old unfavorable and
deceptive methOfs these new agents,
appointed by President cleveland,
began their work of winning the
confidence of these red people.
The labor was difficult. The lead
ers-the chief, and the other
enlightened Indians-were first won
over. and the work of making the
Indians fully believe that the white
man is trustworthy is making rapid
Roadway among the Indians generally.
1t is now entirely safe for white man to
go alone across any of these tribal reser-
vatiOnS. Indians will not modest him.
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among the Indians along the Missouri
in Dakota. The right men are now in
the right place among them, thanks to
the wisdom of the appointments of the
executive. Complaints of ill treatment
are not now made. Visitors to the
Standing Rock, Cheyenne, BruIe, Crow
Creek, Rose Bud and Yankton agencies.
all close to the Missouri river, upon
inquiry hear only
SATISFACTION EXPRESSED BY THE
INDIANS
at their treatment by these Democratic
agents. Even at this early period of
the rule over these wild wards of the
government by Democrats it is believed
that any tribe located on the reserva-
ton lands. included in the Doves bill,
would to man, if requested by the
proper parties. sign his name to a petit
ton for the opening up of all their
country to settlement by the white peo-
pie, after they have selected their own
shares under the severalty bill.
The Indians, as they are, have no law
of prOtection-save their own of war
fare and spoils-againstt the whites; but,
when they have become citizens, by
their taking their lands under the sew
crafty act, they will have redress under
the white mans law, the same as any
citizen. They appreciate this feature
of the law, and will understand it, and
are willing to take their chances under
it with the present party in power: but
they have no faith in the party whose
officials have in the past broken their
promises and shamefully treated them.
because they trusted completely under
their treaty.
TREACHERY PRACTICED BY THE RE-
PUBLICANS
toward them has been the cause of the
holding shut the door to this vast estate
for so long time: and this truth dis
pels the ungrOunded charge that Demo-
Gratis in congress defeated it and that
Republican party have for years whip
ped the red ''devil around the stump
for the sake of plumber, and have held
back the people in their onward march
of civilization for years by base decep-
ton; but crushed truth rises now among
the wigwamS. and it remains for the
Democratic party to prove that, by
granting the Indians all they are en-
titled to. under the law of guardianship
honestly administered. They will ac-
cept the white mans words as words of
truth and wisdom, and open the door to
settlers that these may teach them why
they were created for better and more
useful life than their untutored life has
been.
The Catholic missions, at whose
schools little Indian boys are taught to
read and write the English language, are
great movers of the Indian toward wean-
ing him from his wild and bloody life.
Although the school at Standing Rock
has been consolidated with the one at
Yankton and the one at Stephen Mission
in Hyde cOunty-theSe three to be one
school by January, 1888.
THE INFLUENCE OF IT STILL. REMAINS
at Standing Rock agency. These bows
like the life they lead, and realize that
they are being educated for a life of use
fulness. They are, one and all, bright
children.
The marriage of Mr.. Carlin and Miss
Dupree, at Standing Rock, lately, is
matter of great rejoicing among the In
dians from one end of the reservation
belt to the other, and is of itself great
and another influence toward drawing
to the white man the Indian-that he
may be educated and become like us, as
far as his capabilities will admit. Com
plete absorption is the only sure way of
losing the Tndjan.--TO hermit him tn al.